Todd Dills

Get your Ice Road Truckers DVDs while the roads remain

Yes, it was only a matter of time, I’d say, before a newspaper in the Great White North did a long feature on the potential impact melting sea ice in the Arctic and changing climate patterns due south of it could have on an important part of the Canadian economy — and our own television viewing.

The Globe and Mail, Canada’s newspaper of record, in late May published a wide-ranging feature on global warming’s impact on the 5,400 kilometers of ice roads used yearly to haul supplies to remote towns and mines in the country’s extreme north. The prognosis is not great.

This year’s season brings stars of last fall’s Himalayan adventure – Rick Yemm, Lisa Kelly, Alex Debogorski and Redmon – among others, back to North America to square off in a U.S. v. Canada duel. There are some added wrinkles, or lack thereof, in ice-road rookie Maya Sieber, a New York City resident with a passion for big rigs (pictured, left, with Kelly) and plenty of pluck to give the vets a run for their money. New episodes air Sundays at 9 p.m. Eastern and Pacific.

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Todd Dills

Todd Dills is Senior Editor of Overdrive magazine and writes from Nashville, Tenn. He frequently covers business, regulatory and lifestyle topics for the magazine and at OverdriveOnline.com. His work on the “CSA’s Data Trail” series in Overdrive about the federal CSA program was awarded the highest honor in trade journalism – the “Grand Neal” – by American Business Media at the 2014 Jesse H. Neal Awards. Dills’ Channel 19 blog covers a grab bag of on-highway hearsay, owner-operator news and driver views from the roadways the nation over. His work in trucking journalism builds on a background of news feature, fiction and other creative writing and editing. Find him here at the Channel 19 blog and via his Twitter feed, or send tips to tdills@randallreilly.com or via phone at 205-907-2481.